OpenAI makes its ChatGPT and Whisper models available via cloud APIs

Developers can now integrate OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT and Whisper models into their software thanks to new application programming interfaces that became available today.

An application programming interface, or API, is a channel through which programs exchange data and instructions with one another. It allows one application to have another workload perform a task when certain conditions are met. A marketing application, for example, can ask an artificial intelligence tool to translate ad copy into a different language.

The first new API that OpenAI debuted today is for its ChatGPT model. Until now, ChatGPT was primarily accessible through a graphical interface, which means developers had no simple way to connect it to their applications. The new API that debuted today removes…